[minimaxir]

I just registered using Twitter and submitted a post of my own content. Seems to work, although I'm curious if it will get deleted since I'm not cool enough to associate up-and-center with the venture crowd.

Unlike HN, you must submit text in the body of a submission. Which is somewhat redundant.

[alexanderpease]

our thought process was that if you can't write something interesting about the link, even just a sentence, it's probably not worth posting

it also has the benefit of engendering more of a discussion. i'm more likely to comment on a post if the OP has already commented on it him/herself

but yes this is something we talked about internally

[minimaxir]

In my case, I just copy/pasted a sentence from the article itself, and that seems to be the case for many of the current submissiosn to USV.com.

[fredwilson]

it won't get deleted if its not spam

and everyone gets a vote up or down so the best links will rise to the top